Comments on: Desperate Housewives Game from Buena Vista

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:37:20 +0000

I got this game yesterday (Christmas) i loaded it on and thought everything was ok. But it seems like the game is in widescreen and does not fit on my screen. My screen is big, the buttons you click on, settings, start game etc. are not directly on the button, you need to move the mouse about 6cm to the left. and click… im very confused with all of this!
when i go into settings, i cant even change the screen size as its not on the screen!!!! its cut off my screen. Grrrr.
if anyone can help would be great!

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:24:38 +0000

My mum brought me this for christmas for my new computer and may i just say IT IS THE BIGGEST LOAD OF B******s I Have EVER Seen In My LIFE!!! I gave away all my sims two games for this shit and to be quite honest even the company who made it can’t offer A SOLUTION so next time you go out and buy a new game DONT BUY THEIR BLOODY PRODUCTS !!!!!!!!!! everything else passed just the video card thingie and its a brand new pc with VISTA !!! i mean this is really naffing me off tbh .

By: Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:35:11 +0000

I have 3 computers in my house and the only one that actually will let me play the game is my really old one that is really slow. It drives me crazy cos its such a good game but its way to slow for smooth gameplay so i cant even really play it anyway. I hate buena vista!!

By: lol

lol — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:44:34 +0000

to make it faster when it downloads make sure u close down any programs tht r running before u start playing. also when u start playing, go to the options menu and untick all the special effects and any others u things u can go without.. it works quicker now, still slow but bareable (Y)

By: Brendalee K.

Brendalee K. — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:00:34 +0000

I have the same freakin problem. The game downloads and everything but will not play My system is compatiable, spent mega money upgrading my comp. to play this game but no matter what it will not play.!

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:22:29 +0000

Hi! I’m at the second episode and i don’t know where is the susan’s thing, which i have to find. (”Go tho the susan’s house and look after the thing she’s looking for). There is anyone in the house. Can someone help me please??

By: kazza

kazza — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:54:45 +0000

I got the game the other day up loaded it and now it goes to the page where eve is n then it shuts down to my windows page wa should i do ???? Helppppppppppppppppppppp !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: genesis

genesis — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:07:33 +0000

hi, im having trouble installing desperate housewives the game its saying that my computer video acceleration has failed what should i do i was wondering if there was any website or downloading thing i can use to clear my video accleration ive tryed so many things nothing helped
im desperate!!!!! please help me

By: TANYA

TANYA — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:54:00 +0000

HI brought game bout year ago, [I'm live Australia] & same probs with install, video card died so brought new one GeForce 5200 & game worked fine, played it for 2days & loved it, then I get to start of episode where fashion show starts & man putting something in my mailbox, screen starts to load my mini menus Im standing near front door & it freezes, error msg comes up saying it had to do a minidump & it saved it in program files etc,???? wth is a minidump & does anyone know how to fix it? I downloaded the 1.4patch from gamespot [8.0mb] but when I run it says “old file not found, however a file of the same name found. No update done since file contents do not match”???? aahhhhh!!!! I dont know what was worse not being able to install or playing a bit & not being able to go any further, cos I love game & am addicted already
Please help

By: Yanxa

Yanxa — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:13:07 +0000

Hi. Bought the game today. It won’t even let me install. Keeps coming up with File Transfer Errors. Any help, please…

By: Twinkies

Twinkies — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:27:40 +0000

Uhg it works on my laptop even tho it says it doenst have like half the things yew need to play. But its super slow and It wont even let me get past the second episode. So why wont it play on my comp. Again my comp has accel and the game needs accel so wtf is wrong?!¿!?

By: Twinkies

Twinkies — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:21:20 +0000

Uhg … Mine is the same ! Idk why but the EFFIN game wont
load. =[ On the acceleration it says my comp hase the EXACT same thing the game needs … but for some reason that will never be known it says my comp fail -.- wtf dude!!!
Uhg is there any way to download the game without having to me ALL the requierments???¿???¿???
HELP ME!!!!!! If not then this game waz a waist of time and cash…

By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:45:15 +0000

I managed to bypass the install, and it shut down at the woman with the apple, but there’s the sound of a dog barking on my laptop??!!

I’m assuming this means the game is somehow running in the background or my laptop has bought a pet?

By: Hadi

Hadi — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:11:40 +0000

I have tried calling the helpline which was minimum help, my requirement are fine. I have tried so many different ways to make this game work. Including various sites suggesting what I could do that have experienced the same problem with the same game. I have never had any problems playing anything on my laptop and had I known this could happen or how many people had experienced the same problem I would never have bought the game. I do not have money to throw away and I believe Buena Vista should have either made the public aware of the game’s shortcoming or removed the game from the shelves until they could fix the problem. I have checked your official website and it is ridiculous that a game has so many limitation and has still been able to be put on the market!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:02:11 +0000

SAVE GAME SOLUTION!
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I have found a solution to the “Save Game” annoying problem. I believe it’s affecting people who are running windows Vista, if so, it’s easy to fix, do the below.

1) Right click on the Desperate housewives shortcut / icon or .exe file, and click properties.
2) Click the compatibility tab.
3) Tick the “Run this programme in compatibility mode” and select “Windows XP (SP2),
4) Tick “Run this program as an administrator”.

Done! :D

You now have full write privileges, so you can save you game. Enjoy.